Most sought speakers - March 2009

Arthur Kroeber

We entered the second half of March again, reason enough to look at trends among the speakers at the China Speakers Bureau. Compared to our top-10 in February, we can see one clear trend: especially in the high end. Not a surprising development in these economically challenging times.
That is partly because compared to the last months of 2008, our trusted voices have also become a bit more outspoken on what they expect for 2009. As always: there is no simple message. The economic picture China is offering at this stage varies very much from industry to industry, from region to region. Economic indicators keep on pointing in different directions. Exports continue to be down, although that is financially compensated by also dropping imports. Car sales over February goes up, although recovery of the real estate sector still seems to be far away.
Arthur Kroeber, after our eternal no.1 Shaun Rein, has moved up most.
Let's then turn to the top-10 of most sought speakers over March 2009:

1. Shaun Rein
2. Arthur Kroeber
3. William Bao Bean
4. Zhang Lijia
5. Rupert Hoogewerf
6. Tom Doctoroff
7. Kaiser Kuo
8. Victor Shih
9. Andrew Leung
10. Jeremy Goldkorn